NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 11GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1582MHz

More VRAM (11GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (484.4GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti +319%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Mar 2017

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1481 MHz

Base Clock

-

1582 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1376 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

11GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

352bit

Memory Bus

256bit

484.4GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

3584

Shading Units

1536

224

TMUs

96

88

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

0 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

139.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

354.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

177.2 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.34 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

354.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Cayman

GP102-350-K1-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

40 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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